Re: HIT (sort of) science materials

["Barbara R. Herbert" <bherb@JUNO.COM>]

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:48:19 -0500 Gail Smith <gails@flash.net> writes:

>One brief caveat on the NASA site, my science teacher said that as her
>st=
>udents
>went to enter the URL for NASA (I=92m not sure if there is more than
>one)=
>, they
>automatically added a .com to the end since so many URL=92s end that
>way.=
>  They
>ended up at a porno site.  So if you are leading your students to
>NASA, k=
>eep a
>particularly close watch on what URL they use.
>

I'm told the same thing happens with one of the www.whitehouse sites.
The .gov is the real White House site, but either the .com or .org is
pretty risque!    Another LM_NETter wrote about searching "Mars
exploration" in Yahoo and finding some questionable sites.

I think all of us need to keep an eye on what the students are searching.

Barbara

Barbara R. Herbert          Librarian/NASA ERC Coordinator
Georgian Court College     Lakewood, NJ  08701-2697
home: bherb@juno.com     work: herbert@georgian.edu
NASA ERC: NASA_ERC@georgian.edu
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